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a veteran foreign policy correspondent suddenly embracing the cia. i have never seen the likes of this. their version, but without even qualification. >> and you know the tragedy, i kept thinking, where were we in 1972 during the watergate break-in? that was a time, and tha movie is seen by every reporter as the cult clssicof how reporters investigate the troops got there up against the establishment and are going to fight for the truth. what has happened that is just the opposite. we have a mainstream media that does not want to fight for the truth. it is realy the press office of an obama campaign, and i think when you look back 20 years from now and people look at this era, they're not going to talk about the things you and i are talking about. they will look back and say, where was the media? why did they not exercise the first amendment rights? why did they not speak truth to power? why did they just take what they were fed and go with it bcause they had political leanings that reed with the president? >> i'm going to ask you, if i may, to go be
a veteran foreign policy correspondent suddenly embracing the cia. i have never seen the likes of this. their version, but without even qualification. >> and you know the tragedy, i kept thinking, where were we in 1972 during the watergate break-in? that was a time, and tha movie is seen by every reporter as the cult clssicof how reporters investigate the troops got there up against the establishment and are going to fight for the truth. what has happened that is just the opposite. we...
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. >> he and his people reviewed all existing ongoing cia covert operations, and with the exception of aggressive interrogations, endorsed all of them, and doubled down on a number of them. >> narrator: targeted killings by drones, covert special forces raids overseas, cyber-warfare. president obama authorized it all in secret. >> the man who americans had elected to end two wars and who was in fact winding down the iraq war was also beginning to rev up these secret wars. >> he's the first nobel peace prize winner with a kill list. and it is very disappointing to his base. it is very disappointing to the civil liberties supporters who thought he was going to be much more of a stereotypical liberal. >> narrator: and for president obama, it would lead to one defining triumph. >> good evening. the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden... >> narrator: the killing of osama bin laden in the spring of 2011 was a high point. >> thank you and god bless the united states of america. >> narrator: but the clashes with republicans in washington did not go away. >> con
. >> he and his people reviewed all existing ongoing cia covert operations, and with the exception of aggressive interrogations, endorsed all of them, and doubled down on a number of them. >> narrator: targeted killings by drones, covert special forces raids overseas, cyber-warfare. president obama authorized it all in secret. >> the man who americans had elected to end two wars and who was in fact winding down the iraq war was also beginning to rev up these secret wars....
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the president wasn't just criticizing he was actually threatening to prosecute men and women at the cia, for example, who had implemented these policies that the justice department had said were completely legal and that had been approved by the national security council. it was at that point that my dad stood up and said, wait a second, we approved, we agreed, these were our policies and the notion that the president is now going to come in and threaten prosecution for policies that kept the nation safe is simply beyond the pale an wasn't going to sit silent for that. megyn: i want too ask you as a family member for someone who served the nation for several years as our vice president what you think the families are going through today. for all of us it's pins and needles as we wait to see who wins. what it's like for the families of the candidates. >> it's probably more intense pins and needles, just because you poured your heart and soul into these campaigns, because you feel so deeply about the issues and about the person who is on the ticket. i can remember in 2000 and 2004 you wai
the president wasn't just criticizing he was actually threatening to prosecute men and women at the cia, for example, who had implemented these policies that the justice department had said were completely legal and that had been approved by the national security council. it was at that point that my dad stood up and said, wait a second, we approved, we agreed, these were our policies and the notion that the president is now going to come in and threaten prosecution for policies that kept the...